LIBRIUM Reviews (CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 4.0 (45 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LIBRIUM with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LIBRIUM | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | | 10/6/2005 | 4 | | 10/24/2004 | 4 | Alcohol withdrawal | Feeling pretty fatigued. Seems to help the anxiety | I hope the anxiety and withdrawal effects go away by the time I’m done with them | 33 | 2 days 25-50mg | 5/10/2019 | 5 | Anxiety | None. | Helps tremendously with anxiety. I sleep better and it also seems to help to lower my bp a bit (I also take medication for hypertension). At this low dose, I am not feeling any side effects. Sometimes take only one per day on weekends. | F | 61 | 5 years 5 2X day | 1/31/2021 | 5 | Detox and Anxiety | Too deep of sleep so it took me longer to wake up and feel alert. Increased dreaming. No other side affects. | I have anxiety, physical symptoms only (sweating dangerous spikes in BP, flushing) for no reason. No SSRI/other benzo helped me so I drank and it helped me a lot to feel calm, but then I became addicted to alcohol. My dr gave me this med for a week and it saved me from the scary withdrawals, it was during when the pandemic started so beds were limited and she said I should really be doing in hospital detox due to the severity of my symptoms, but we did it at home with close monitoring and it removed the symptoms and fear I was going to die. It helped me so much we continued to use it as an anxiety med on lower doses since the detox dose is much higher. I take it twice a day, sometimes only once. The only medication to remove these random physiological episodes of anxiety. Lowered my bp which is high even on a cblocker and being active and a healthy weight. This medication has been a gift to me. I don’t get some sense of feeling medicated or any euphoria, I just finally feel normal. I don’t like the feeling of being medicated. | F | 38 | 10 months 25 2X day | 2/17/2021 | 5 | TO CALM ME DOWN/REDUCE ANXIETY | NONE APART FROM BEING A BIT DROWSY. | F | 44 | 6 months | 10/13/2004 | 5 | drink thenanxiety aannd sleeping | no side effects | it helps calm me down from morning till night | F | 35 | 4 years | 6/16/2005 | 5 | anxiety | Calm/well-being feeling | Works very well in maintaining a calm feeling all day long without the terrible drop off effects that Xanax did for me. Xanax made me have more anxiety just knowing when I go out to events/daily duties that take hours, I knew it may wear off during those times. Xanax has done that. Libruim never does this because of its half life. I can trust I can go out and social situations without it leveling off into a possible panic attack. It is cheap in generic and lasts all day. That is comforting. Also, no side effects when stopping for a few months. Highly recommended for chronic, social anxiety and should prevent panic attacks all day. Slight feeling of drowsiness, however, better than feeling a racing, panicked mind daily. | F | 27 | 4 months 25mg 3X day | 3/14/2011 | 5 | anxiety | Not many side effects at all. Only med I've taken that reduced the "pit" in my stomach without making me feel out of it. I use it as needed during anxiety provoking situations or anxiety attacks. | F | 39 | 1 years 10 mg | 9/17/2014 | 4 | Anxiety, Tremors, Hypothalmic Disor | No real side effects. Helps GREATLY with tremors, anxiety and sleeping. I developed a central nervous system disorder after being diagnosed with Addison's Disease (failing adrenal glands)and a hypothalmic dysfunction. I was taking 2-3 Librax a day for 3 years then tapered off for about 3 months and quit. I'm considering going back on it because the original symptoms have returned with a vengence. I've been completely off it for 2 months. However, in the meantime I'm having a good combo doctor (M.D. and homeopath) run some more tests to try and determine root causes of symptoms, as well as balance all my hormones (female, thyroid and adrenal)and check for deficiencies in vitamins and minerals. | F | 53 | 3 years | 11/30/2007 | 4 | Acute anxiety/chronic anxiety | At first dry mouth (still get that occasionally) and excessive daytime drowsiness, confusion, clumsiness , and lightheadedness (went away also with time). | Have had minimal issues with this medication except when I first started taking it. It has relieved my chronic anxiety very well, I feel like a different person for the better. | F | 43 | 1 years 10 MG 5X day | 12/27/2011 | 4 | Esophageal spasms | No bad side-effects to mention. | My newly diagnosed GERD showed its initial obvious symptoms as breathlessness which turned out to be spasms in my lower esophagus. After an endoscopy to do biopsies and stretch my esophagus, I needed a stronger medicine and Librium ( as well as a simple diet) has worked beautifully! My spasms have decreased 80%. I only take 1 pill before dinner...also use Gaviscon after smaller meals. | F | 42 | 60 days 5 mg 1X day | 11/16/2012 | 4 | Anxiety, racing thoughts, hot flash | Racing thoughts and anxiety are gone. Hot flashes are gone. My tight muscles are more relaxed. I'm sleeping much better. I think I' make the mistake of taking in an empty stomach in the am, so I tend to feel like I'm walking on jello. But I'm alert and I have good energy but not crazy energy. I feel I must be sure to eat before taking in the mornings. This is changing my life for the better but I know as with all meds like this, the day will come when I will have to taper off. So this scares me. I don't want to have to withdraw from anything again. I wish I could control my own emotions. | F | 58 | 2 days 10 mg | 5/12/2014 | 3 | major anxiety/panic disorder | some drowsiness | I take 150mg/day and I haven't really found it to help as much as I need it to. It definitely helps enough to get through the day but I can still feel some anxiety trying to push it's way through. The first day I took it I felt very out of it and almost drunk. That was only the first day. Since then, it seems to be working better and better each day but it's still not quite strong enough. I am no longer having anxiety or panic attacks but the general anxiety symptoms are still slightly there. It may take awhile for this med to work properly and it's possible I just need to give it more time. | F | 31 | 11 days | 5/29/2009 | 2 | alcohol outpatient detox | Feeling clumsy and dizzy. I don't think this is due to alcohol dependence because I was the the once a month binger type. I have to stop b/c my gallbladder was removed due to stones and drinking puts way too much stress on my liver. After an allnighter, I got really sick, so they assumed my BAL was so high because I had tolerance. My liver simply couldn't get rid of the toxin. | It doesn't seem to do anything for me but as I said dizziness and feeling clumsy on my feet. I also got a mild hand tremor. After all the issues of getting sick, being undressed by male nurses in an ER, not being secured in bed so I rolled off-I don't think I will be swinging by a bar anytime soon. I do know it is the usual course (that or Klonopin or Ativan) so I hope it helps people. | F | 55 | 4 days 25 mg 4X day | 7/2/2021 | 1 | anxiety | It seemed to work for a couple of hours after taking then back to stress. Plus gives me headaches that wont go away. I have had two panic attacks which I only had once in a while on ativan. Its only been a few days but this drug sucks! | F | 47 | 3 days 25 1X day | 7/13/2019 | 1 | IBS | Headache, stopped urinating, burning sensation on the skin, nightmares, ringing in my ears, horrible heart palpitations when waking up, I took only 5mg in the evening and I was not able to think clearly until 2pm next day. If I have taken 40 mg as recommended - I would have been dead! | Start with very small doses if you want to try this poison. | F | 61 | 3 days 10 mg 4X day | 6/4/2022 | 1 | Anxiety in hospital after heart att | It gave me a horrendous migraine. I was in horrible pain and as soon as they stopped it, I was fine (after it wore off). I never get migraines, so it was definitely the cause. | I'd never take it again and I'm surprised others don't seem to be having this reaction. | F | 67 | 2 days 2X day | 8/12/2023 | 1 | anxiety, spasms from CNS damage | reduces anxiety, increase spasm, arthritis-like pain, muscle weakenss | it initially calmed me down 30-40 mins after first dose on first day (10 mg). after day 2 i experienced intense weakness and joint pain, much worse than what i originally had. i stopped and immediately improved physical symptoms by day 3 of being off it. had withdrawl symptoms with increased anxiety while going off of it. horrible for me! | F | 29 | 3 days | 2/20/2007 | 5 | GAD | slight increase in hunger, nothing else to speak of | As an individual, Librium works very well for what I take it for. For severe, crippling panic, I would not recommend this drug. It's effects are very subtle and are perfectly suited to treat low level chronic anxiety. As with most anxiolytics, dependency is an issue, and should not be overlooked. That said, please avoid those people/sites that say their lives were 'ruined' by a pill, have severe and permanent damage and that these drugs should be banned. Be responsible for your actions, follow your doctors directions and live healthily. Hope my opinion helps. | M | 30 | 5 years | 10/10/2008 |